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L. J EFPERY. PANORAMIO CAMERA.

No. 586,097. Patented July 13, 1897.

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LOUIS JEFFERY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PANORAMIC CAMERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,097, dated July 13,1897.

Application filed October 12, 1896. Serial No 608,575. (No model.)

"0 (ill whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS JEFFERY, dentist, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at 1 Newton Villas, Finsbury Park, London, inthe county of Middlesex, En gland, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Photographic Cameras for Taking Panoramic, Views, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a photographic camera which canbe utilized to take panoramic views. To this end I mount the camera on astand with a circular top, around the center of which the camera can beturned at a uniform speed. Means are provided for driving the film andfor press ing it against the edge of the circular top of the stand, sothat the movement of the film is made to revolve the camera. VVhile thecamera is making a revolution the sensitive film on which the picture istaken is passed in front of an aperture in a diaphragm within thecamera.

Figure l is a plan, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a horizontalsection on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, of a double camera constructedaccording to this invention.

a is a disk having a roughened edge and supported on a stand or legs,which are not shown.

I) is the camera, supported on rollers c 0, running on the disk at, andby the hollow vertical shaft cl, which works in a bearing at the centerof the disk.

6 is a diaphragm in the camera, and c c are slots in it.

f f are the sensitive films, which when the camera is in use are woundoff from the bobbins g 9 onto the bobbins h 72 passing around therollers j 3', covered with india-rubber, and past the slots 6 c.

72, h are reels or pulleys at the top of the bobbins h h, upon which thecords 70 7c are wound. These cords pass over pulleys Z Z at the top ofthe shaft d, down through the shaft, This weight and are connected to aweight m.

in falling turns the bobbins h h, winding up the films f on them, andthe films being nipped between the rollers j and the roughened edge ofthe disk a drive the camera around the disk, and one of them is alsostrained tight between the roller and the bobbin h by reason of therevolution of the camera being retarded by a fiy a, driven from theshaft 61 by a train of clockwork 0, or, it might be, from the edge ofthe disk. The other film is kept strained between the roller j and thebobbin 9 by reason of the friction of the latter in its bearings.

The diameter of the disk a is so proportioned that the image of anyobject shall travel at the same speed as, and therefore remainstationary relatively to, the film.

What I claim is- 1. The combination with the disk, of means for drivingthe film for pressing it against the edge of the disk and for retardingthe revolution of the camera.

2. The combination of the disk, the camera free to revolve about thecenter of the disk,

a bobbin on which the film is wound after exposure, means for drivingthis bobbin, a roller pivoted in the camera and pressing the filmagainst the edge of the disk and means tending to retard the revolutionof the camera.

3. The combination of the disk, the camera free to revolve about thecenter of the disk a bobbin on which the film is wound after exposure acord wound on the bobbin and attached to a weight, a roller pivoted inthe camera and pressing the film against the edge of the disk and a fiydriven by the camera.

4:. The combination of the stationary disk, the camera pivotallyconnected with the disk and mounted to revolve about the center thereof,and means for driving the film and causing it to press against the edgeof the disk and thereby to revolve the camera.

LOUIS JEFFERY. l'Vitnesses:

W. PERCY CARPMAEL, JOHN H. WHITEHEAD.

